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Post by squeeze. on Jan 30, 2024 13:27:30 GMT
Yep, Doncaster, Milton Keynes, Southend, Colchester, Wrexham and St Asaph of those done more recently. I'd throw in Dunfermline and Bangor (the occupied Ireland one, not the nice Welsh one) as well but I've not visited to check just how tinpot they are. I’m pretty sure Southend was made a city to honour the MP who was brutally murdered so that one can probably be understood. But yeah no idea why it matters.
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Jan 30, 2024 13:34:54 GMT
Makes it even more baffling, granting city status because a hateful individual crossed paths with a psychotic and hateful individual!
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Post by Bendigeidfran on Jan 30, 2024 13:39:00 GMT
I wish I could give a toss. I don't Ok
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Post by texaspete on Jan 30, 2024 13:49:57 GMT
Pretty disrespectful comment here about CUFC away support, made by ex-Blackburn “superstar” Kevin Gallacher, ahead of their match with the mighty Wrexham: (scroll down, it’s near the end of the article) www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68122766What a bellend. Literally the game after our FA Cup tie, Blackburn travelled to West Brom on 13 January and took 23% fewer fans (1,258 compared to our “one man and his dog” 1,636) despite it only being half the distance away.
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Jan 30, 2024 13:51:56 GMT
It's one idiot who probably wasn't even there.
Blackburn fans on twitter have been saying Wrexham's support was the 2nd best they've had visit this season after us! They're not such a bad bunch...
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Post by Andrewlang on Jan 30, 2024 14:14:28 GMT
I think there was a little bit of noshing off Wrexham in there too tbh. Theres a trend of sycophancy towards them in media simply because their owners are well known. It was the same for Salford until someone more famous came along and you don't get the same servile attitude for, say, Stockport's wealthy owners. Or for the owners at not Notts Forest.
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Post by Wingco's Boy on Jan 30, 2024 15:37:48 GMT
Makes it even more baffling, granting city status because a hateful individual crossed paths with a psychotic and hateful individual! You’re suggesting that Sir David Amess was a hateful individual who deserved what he got? Jesus Christ.
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Post by Sandypants on Jan 30, 2024 15:40:11 GMT
Makes it even more baffling, granting city status because a hateful individual crossed paths with a psychotic and hateful individual! You’re suggesting that Sir David Amess was a hateful individual who deserved what he got? Jesus Christ. Where on Earth did they say he deserved what he got?
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Jan 30, 2024 15:45:13 GMT
Makes it even more baffling, granting city status because a hateful individual crossed paths with a psychotic and hateful individual! You’re suggesting that Sir David Amess was a hateful individual who deserved what he got? Jesus Christ. Yeah, that's exactly what I said. Strewth.
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Post by Wingco's Boy on Jan 30, 2024 16:44:46 GMT
You’re suggesting that Sir David Amess was a hateful individual who deserved what he got? Jesus Christ. Yeah, that's exactly what I said. Strewth. You’re quite right, I did misread what you said, and I apologize. But why did you call him a hateful individual? Here are some of the tributes paid to him from his political opponents: Harriet Harman: “Sir David was one of the most dedicated but also the most affable of MPs. He looked beyond party differences to work with so many of us on a multitude of issues of common concern. “ Keir Starmer: “ … a man whose decency touched everybody that he met. Taken together, these tributes are a powerful testimony to the respect, the affection and, yes, the love that David was held in across politics and across different communities.” Iain Blackford: “David was, above all else, a good and deeply decent man—a man who would always greet you with a welcoming smile whenever you met him.” Yvette Cooper: “Every one of us has a story of things that we worked with David on. There were so many different issues, but for me it was the work we did together on amendments to help child refugees reunite with their families, which was something he felt strongly about. You could never predict what issue he would feel strongly about next, but then you would look back and think that it made absolute sense that that was what he was championing, because kindness, compassion and helping others were so often at the heart of it.”
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Jan 30, 2024 16:54:00 GMT
Fair enough, appreciate your apology!
As for why he's a hateful individual, go and look at his voting record. It's pretty homophobic and ableist, with a dash of misogyny and capital punishment thrown in alongside his Brexiteerism.
I'm only judging him on that basis, which is probably fair enough as an MP for forty years, and probably holds more merit than eulogies given after his tragic passing.
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Post by texaspete on Jan 31, 2024 12:50:02 GMT
My main memory about David Amess is his campaign to get the made-up drug “cake” banned
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Post by cambsno on Jan 31, 2024 14:57:33 GMT
Yeah, that's exactly what I said. Strewth. You’re quite right, I did misread what you said, and I apologize. But why did you call him a hateful individual? Here are some of the tributes paid to him from his political opponents: Harriet Harman: “Sir David was one of the most dedicated but also the most affable of MPs. He looked beyond party differences to work with so many of us on a multitude of issues of common concern. “ Keir Starmer: “ … a man whose decency touched everybody that he met. Taken together, these tributes are a powerful testimony to the respect, the affection and, yes, the love that David was held in across politics and across different communities.” Iain Blackford: “David was, above all else, a good and deeply decent man—a man who would always greet you with a welcoming smile whenever you met him.” Yvette Cooper: “Every one of us has a story of things that we worked with David on. There were so many different issues, but for me it was the work we did together on amendments to help child refugees reunite with their families, which was something he felt strongly about. You could never predict what issue he would feel strongly about next, but then you would look back and think that it made absolute sense that that was what he was championing, because kindness, compassion and helping others were so often at the heart of it.” Pretty much everyone is spoken about in this way, Boris will even though he is an odious individual. When asked, what do you think they would say "thank god he is dead, horrible man"? Sad it may have been but making a town a city because of a murder is not IMO a good reason
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Post by imp566 on Jan 31, 2024 17:32:07 GMT
Technically that's not why they made Southend a City. Amess was among many campaigning for it well before he was murdered, and it was thought to be a good legacy to his work to confirm it in his memory. Chances are it may have happened anyway
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